Today is Friday.
Pippi asked Miss Carmencita to take it easy and she told the lady that she herself also had paid and had the right to have fun. Then Miss Carmencita tried to jump off herself, but that didn't work either, because Pippi was holding her tightly around the waist. At that moment the audience couldn't help laughing. They thought it was so funny to see the lovely Miss Carmencita held against her will by a little red-headed younger girl who stood there on the horse's back in her enormous shoes and looked as if she had never done anything except performing in a circus. But the ringmaster didn't laugh. He turned toward an attendant in a red uniform and made a sign to him to go and stop the horse. Pippi asked in a disappointed tone if this number was already over, just when they were having so much fun. The ringmaster hissed between his teeth that what a horrible child and asked Pippi to get out of there. Pippi looked at him sadly and asked why he was mad at her because she had thought she had been there to have fun. She skipped off the horse and went back to her seat. But at that time two huge guards came to throw her out. They took hold of her and tried to lift her up.
